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OCTOBER 12, 1939. MOINES REGISTER PAGE FIFTEEN Two Women Will Leave For Minneapolis, Minn. TRS. MENNIG and M' Mrs. Harry Blackburn are leaving today to spend the weekend in Minneapolis, Minn.

Miss Flora Leland of El Dorado, concluded a visit Wednesday night with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Leland, 13 Thirty-fourth st.

Miss Marie Stapp of Wiggins, arrived Saturday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. W. O. Finkbine, who underwent a major operation Wednesday morning at Iowa Methodist hospital. Mrs.

D. J. Willis and Mrs. F. B.

Dickinson returned Tuesday night after a short visit in Rochester, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ford of Goshen, who have been visiting in Des Moines and Stuart, leftys. Wednesday visit Mr.

and Charles Slye in Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. and Mrs. Henry G. Decker, 2908 Woodland have returned from a week's trip Indianapolis, Louisville, and St.

Louis, Mo. While in Indiana, Dr. Decker attended a meeting of the Central Neuro-Psychiatric association. Mrs. M.

Huntress of Newton Center, concluded. a visit Wednesday with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Heninger. Miss Orpha Sherman returned Tuesday to Iowa City, where she is studying for her master's degree at the State University of Iowa after a brief visit at her home.

Parties Honor Local Visitors IEUT. AND MRS. LUTHER C. HEINZ, who are visiting the latter brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.

Hal Chase, II, en route from China to their new post at Norfolk, are being complimented at informal courtesies. Mrs. Henz' uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James Hubbell, will be hosts at a small dinner this evening at their home, 1401 Casady road, and Wednesday evening Lieut.

and Mrs. Heinz were out of town guests at the Junior League style show at Younkers tearoom. Mr. and. Mrs.

Chase entertained at a small cocktail party Tuesday at their home complimenting their guests. Silver Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. G.

D. Lindahl, 726 Sandahl entertained at a dinner party Saturday evening in honor of the twenty-fifth anniand versary sister, of Mr. their and brother Frank H. Warrick, 1415 Wilson ave. Guests were Messrs.

and Mesdames A. Hammarberg, H. A. Hansen, Paul Hanson, M. L.

Raymond, V. T. Smith, C. T. Nygard and daughters, Verna and Mary Phyllis.

Thetas Entertain. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority of Drake university gave a tea reception Sunday honoring the new housemother, Mrs. Abbie McGuire. Guests included actives and pledges the Drake chapter, members of the Des Moines alumnae chapter, housemothers of fraternities and sororities on the campus and presidents of other social sororities. Other guests were Mesdames Carrie Taylor Cubbage, D.

W. Morehouse and E. C. Lytton and Miss Leona Anderson. Miss Harriet Nourse, social chairman, was in charge of arrangements.

Live Y'ers Club. Live Y'ers club of the Y.W.C.A. is giving a get-acquainted party at 7:30 p. at the Y.W.C.A., Ninth and High streets. This party will introduce their club, which is made up of business and just-out-of-school girls between the ages of 18 and 21, to interested girls.

A program of games, singing, general fun- Is Married Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Tipton, 2510 High announce the marriage of their daughter, Margaret, to Harrie Caster, 1338 E.

Grand son of Mrs. Mable Caster. The wedding took place Sept. 30 and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. G.

E. Purdy. The couple will live at 1338 E. Grand ave. making, and refreshments has been planned.

Officers and committee chairmen who will act as hostesses are: June McDermott, president; Betty Ann Hoopes, vice president; Judale McGrath, secretary; Esther Keates, treasurer; and Gladys Anderson, Mary Hilley, Lucile Banning, Margaret Ralston, Freda Creveling, Leannea Gustafson, Catherine Johnson, Betty Baichly. The party is open to all business or future business girls between 18 and 21. Mrs. Stewart Hostess. Chapter GI of P.E.O.

will begin its year with a luncheon Friday at the home of Mrs. Walter L. Stewart, 4026 Kingman blvd. The program scheduled for year is "Education on the March." Mrs. Robert Colflesh will speak on "Through the Schools" and Mrs.

H. L. McPherrin's subject will be "Education Through the Forum." Miss Hilma Anderson of Smouse school also will be 8 speaker. Sorority Entertains. Sorority Entertains.

Members of Kappa Delta Beta sorority of the Junior Federation entertained the pledges at a kid party Wednesday evening at 2511 Clark st. Miss Helen Janda was hostess. Prenuptials Fete Philomena Davitt Miss Philomena Davitt, whose marriage to John W. King of Minneapolis, will take place at 7:45 a. m.

Oct. 21 at St. John's Catholic church, is being honored at several prenuptial parties. Mrs. J.

P. Ryan, 2847 Cottage Grove entertained at a miscellaneous shower and dinner party Sunday evening. were Mrs. Martin Hanrahan of Cumming, Mrs. Walter Davitt and Misses Mildred Cash, Magdelin Callan, Gertrude O'Grady, Clementine Schroyer and Phyllis Hearn.

The department of pupil adjustment of the board of education entertained at an office party Thursday for Miss Davitt and presented her with a gift. Mrs. Harold Anderson and Misses Gertrude Miller and Lois Knipp entertained Oct. 2 at which time the bride-elect was given a gift. BISHOP TOURS FILM STUDIOS The Most Rev.

Gerald 1 P. Bergan, bishop of the Des Moines diocese, recently made a tour of Paramount studios at Hollywood, with other clergymen. The visitors had their pictures taken with Charlie Ruggles, comedian, on "The Farmer's Daughter" set. Woodmen Circle Group Will Attend Convention D' ES circle MOINES members will WOODMEN attend a district convention of the society at Boone, on Friday. Delegates will be present from 10 near-by towns.

Honored guests and speakers for the occasion will be Miss Blanche Eakin, national assistant attendant, honorary past state president and state manager; Mrs. O'Lena Richards, state treasurer; Mrs. Agnes Daniels, state musician; Miss Juanita Hoxsey, recording secre-10 tary of the Tau Phi Lambda sorority; and Mrs. Cleo Ferger, past state president, Des Moines. Others.

Others are Mrs. Helen Moore, state president, of Sioux City, Mrs. Nell Nicholson, state Secretary, of DeBates Council of Bluffs, Marshall- town, and Mrs. Clara Holdsworth of Newton, state auditors: Mrs. Lena Zenor, state auditor and district chaplain, and Mrs.

ADMITS HE WAS GOING 'OVER LIMIT'Fined $75, Loses License MARVIN MOYER FOUND GUILTY Officer Testifies Car Almost Hit Another. Marvin L. Moyer, of 3305 Fifty-fourth Wednesday was fined $75 and his driver's license suspended for six months by Municipal Judge Charles S. Cooter after 1 he was found guilty of speeding. Mover was arrested on Beaver ave.

Oct. 3 by state highway patrolmen who said he was driving "more than 75 miles an hour." "Won't Go That Fast." Moyer, from the witness stand, admitted he was driving over the speed limit, but added that he was "not going 75 or 80 miles an hour because my car won't go that fast." A companion riding with him at the time that a motorcy. cle passed and the boys "on testified, it acted like they wanted to race so gave them one and passed them." "A Near Accident." The arresting officer testified Moyer's speeding car almost struck another auto near Thirty-second st, and Forest ave. before he turned on Beaver ave. The fine was paid.

Marvin L. Moyer. Pays $75 Fine. CITES BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY: Baptist Speaker Says It's Christianity. (The Register's lowa News Service.) FORT DODGE, is the last hope and bulwark of democracy, Dr.

Luther Wesley Smith of Philadelphia, executive secretary of the American Baptist Publication society, told Iowa Baptists at a general session of their eighty-eighth annual convention here Wednesday. The creed of Christ is at this time confronted by its greatest crisis, Dr. Smith said. Never Before. "Never since the disciples first sought to gain the Roman empire for Christ have the church and religion been so imperiled," he declared.

"Communism in 18 years has won more to materialism and Chrisadherents, tianity received in its first 18 centuries. "Millions of Germans are beginning to believe they cannot be both good Germans and good Christians. They are tempted by the official Nazi ideology to throw away the old testament and any sense of discipleship to Christ. Marching. "In many lands millions of young people are marching, caught up and swept on by some mighty, dominating passion.

We should be concerned desperately that if that ever happens in America, youth should be possessed by the passion to love and follow Christ, not a godless ideology." The most important business in the world, Dr. Smith said, "is for you and me to bring under our influence as many young people as we may 50 that there may be sown in their minds and hearts the seed thoughts of true religion." "Einstein, one of the great minds of all times, long held church and religion in mild contempt," he said. The "When Nazism swept Germany, he saw the professors and scientists remain silent. He confessed the only people in Germany who had the courage to speak out against the paganism threatening the existence of all civilization were those in whose hearts had been nurtured the ideals and. conscience of religion." SALVATION ARMY SERVICE TODAY Delegates from the territorial congress of the Salvation Army in Chicago, will conduct a special service at 8 p.

m. today at Salvation Army hall, 610 E. Des Moines st. 3 FINES PAID FOR CONTEMPT $1,500 Is Received in Newton Cases. NEWTON, IA.

Payment of $1,500 for three fines assessed for contempt of a Jasper county district court injunction in connection with the Maytag labor dispute here last year was received Wednesday by County Attorney Luther M. Carr. The sum was received from the National Surety Co. of New York, bonding company for the three C.I.O. leaders found guilty of the contempt citation.

The cases were those of James B. Carey, New York, and William Sentner of St. Louis, international president and vice president respectively of the Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, and Hollis Hall of Newton, former vice president of the Maytag employes union. Each received a $500 fine and six months in jail. On appeal to the supreme court, the fines were upheld but jail sentences were not sustained.

AN ARCHDIOCESE AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C. (P)-The apostolic delegation announced Wednesday night that the District of Columbia had been designated an archdiocese of the Catholic church. The Most Rev. Michael J.

Curley, archbishop of Baltimore since 1921, will have jurisdiction over both the Baltimore re and Washington archdioceses. Washington has been one of the few major capitals which was not the seat of DIES IN FIRE WIREPHOTO (P) Lorraine Rosemarie Goodall. Burned to Death. Stewardess' Body Found in Flaming Auto. OAKLAND, CAL.

(P) The body of Lorraine Rosemarie Goodall, 23, an air lines stewardess, was found in a flaming automobile in the rear of a service station Wednesday. Battalion Chief Frank Kispert department said Miss of Goodall fire, been burned to death. A gallon can was in the coupe but Kispert said there was no odor of gasoline. Neighbors were awakened by a blowing of an automobile horn and found the machine in flames. DRIVER IS PAROLED.

NEWTON, IA. R. Timmins, 48, Prairie City, farmer, Wednesday in district court pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and was given a four-month sus- 4 ARE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Convict's Wife Surrenders Mr. and Mrs. Wife Freed on Bond; DALLAS, TEX.

(P) -Mrs. Richard Gallogly, named in a fugitive warrant charging she aided her socialite husband, a Georgia lifeterm convict, to escape, surrendered to Sheriff Smoot Schmid Wednesday. She was arraigned in justice court and released on $2,500 bond. Gallogly, who escaped with his bride of a few months while being NAVY MOTHERS RE-ELECT HEAD (The Register's Iowa News Service.) OTTUMWA, Alma Russell of Des Moines Wednesday was re-elected commander of the Iowa Navy Mothers club at closing sessions of the two-day convention here. Other officers are: Mrs.

Jennie Yerkovich of Clinton, first vice president; Mrs. Maude Ellis of Davenport, second vice president; Mrs. Hazel Whitchill of Des Moines, adjutant; Mrs. Laytha Brown of Burlington, finance officer; Mrs. Glenna Archer of Cedar Rapids, judge advocate, and Mrs.

Winifred Ried of Mason City, chaplain. Clinton was selected as site of the 1940 convention. WIREPHOTO (AP) Richard Gallogly. Gallogly Remains in Jail. transferred from an Atlanta hospital to Reidsville state prison, remained in jail pending outcome of his fight to block extradition.

He has served 10 years of a life sentence as accessory to the slaying of an Atlanta drug store clerk. He said he came to Dallas because here "there are real men who will understand my case." He surrendered to the sheriff after retaining an attorney. KITTINGER TALK ON FOOD STAMPS Ralph Kittinger, secretary of the Wholesalers Food Institute of Iowa and former secretary of the state relief administration, will address today's luncheon meeting of the Des Moines Real Estate board at Younkers tearoom. He will discuss the federal food stamp, Moines. plan now in operation in CLAY OFFICIAL IS FINED $300 (The Register's Iowa News Service.) SPENCER, Reardon, member of the Clay county board of supervisors, was fined $300 and costs by District Judge F.

C. Davidson after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated. The judge suspended $200 of the fine. "YOU'VE NEVER CHEESE TASTED COTTAGE LIKE HIr Photo Cafeteria Courtesy Bishop's Old Fashioned Cottage Cheese Made Even Better By a New Process- Get ready for a wonderful new taste thrill when you eat this improved new Flynn Cottage Cheese; it's made by an entirely different Flynn process that gives you uniformly softer, smoother textured cheese with a flavor that's deliciously different. Order it -taste it -you'll say it's the best ever.

Order Flynn Cottage Cheese Today--In Bowls, Glasses or Cartons The Flynn route man will deliver this 511- perior cottage cheese in beautiful multistriped glasses or colorful heatproof bowls. Order from your route man today or call your neighborhood grocer. Listen to Dan Dunn, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Slunn Car Goes Into Ditch After Collision. Four young persons were jured, one seriousy, when their automobile collided with another car early Wednesday night at Seventy-third st. and University ave.

Injured were: Dorothy Wolfe, 13, lacerated head and leg, shock and possible brain concussion, condition serious; Donald Wolfe, 19, and his wife, 16, cuts about the head, and bruises; and Corrine Witt, 15, of 1420 Seventy-eighth cut on the head. The Wolfes live at 100 Twelfth West Des Moines. Dorothy is Donald's sister. The automobile was driven by Donald and went into the ditch when it was in a collision with the car of Ernest Burch, 51, Clive, Ia. TWO OF A KIND Father, Son on Rock Island Railway Pension Rolls.

The Rock Island railroad Wednesday reported a son has followed his father on its pension rolls. The father, Charles Kasper Rost, 84, locomotive engineer, was retired in 1914 after 40 years service. The son, Charles J. Rost, 65, a machinist, retired a few days ago with 14 years service. Both live at 404 Tenth West Des Moines.

The Rock Island also announced retirement of Conductor Charles S. Needham, 635 Fifth West Des Moines, after 42 years with Catholic diocese. pended jail sentence. the railroad. 1939 OCTOBER 4, WEAR DAILY, WEDNESDAY, WOMEN'S Local Auction 20 -Fursat Furs Swing Skunk, Opossum, Reaction at Muskrat, Lampson All Sale Upward Feel Raw May Allow San Stronger Excland fed prices sale held Huth, The practically opossum at Fraser salesroam moving the CUpped from moving mare upward Vomen's Wear Dally, published in New York City BUT Basic Cost keeps prices down for you (while present stocks last) Domestic as well as ported furs are feeling the impact of unsettled world conditions.

Curtailment of sources of imported furs, plus growing popularity for such domestic furs as 3 skunk, muskrat, opossum, and racoon, are definitely, making themselves felt. Cownie's position in the fur field allowed this great organization--Iowa's largest furriers--to purchase heavily last spring and summer when the fur market was at a very low ebb. Cownie's Basic-Cost Plan prices all coats on the basis of cost. Thus, although fur prices at source are rising, prices to you of Cownie True Value Furs stay at early season low levels as long as furs purchased last summer are still available. Take advantage of these New as Tomorrow Is the New "Let Out" Raccoon low prices--select your And with its newness, Raccoon has achieved new popularity new fur coat at Cownie'sat Cownie's Under the Basic Cost Plan, this lovely flattering swagger is still priced at.

$196 today. COWNIE BASIC-COST PLAN On Cownie furs, the price is determined by the cost to us of each individual coat. Increases in the market value of any coat or pelt, AFTER being taken into our stock, do not Increase or affect the price paid by you at Cownie's. Regardless of the present upward trend in the fur market, this Cownie Basic-Cost Plan remains in full effect. Ina Moffatt, state chaplain, both of Boone.

Assisting with various e- monies are the following district officers: Mesdames Hazel Stark, past district president; Birdie Judiz, vice president; Maud Sewell, auditor, and Mrs. Mary Thomas, auditor. Ritualistic Work. Wild Rose Guards of Des Moines grove, No. 62, will assist with the exemplification of the ritualistic work.

The convention will begin at a. with registration and the program will be at 1:30 and will include exafternoon, emplification of the ritualistic work and draping of the charter. Certificates. A large class of candidates will be initiated and proficiency certificates will be awarded to officers. A banquet at 6 p.

will be followed by an evening session at 8 p. which is open to the public. Furs. In Des Moines, 510 Market Street, off Fifth Avenue, two blocks south Courthouse. Convenient Payments A variety of convenient payment plans have been arranged to help our customers who may prefer to defer payments on their new fur coats.

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